Cones. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Leaves and immature cones. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Tree. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Bark. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Mallee Cypress Pine, Scrub Cypress Pine, Mallee Pine

Family

Cupressaceae

Notes

Tree or shrub to 8m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, in whorls, 0.2-0.4cm long, scale-like, hairless.  Male and female cones on the same plant.

Hybrids between Callitris glaucophylla and Callitris verrucosa have been reported from the area covered by this key.

Differs from Callitris glaucophylla in that the cone scales are thick, warty, and united, forming a thick cone-base; and from Callitris gracilis in that it is a shrub or small tree to 8m tall, and the cones are densely warty.

Description and photograph of cones (as Callitris preissii ssp. verrucosa) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 36

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitris~verrucosa